idk anymore: Costume Bowling

One of my callings at church is YSA (young single adult) Rep. I represent our ward, when the stake, or multi-stake, is collaborating for activities. I've been in the calling for a year now, and the first meeting i was told about (and could go to) was a couple months ago... We were planning the activities for the entire year. They've had trouble getting people out to the multi-stake activities and were wondering why. I put in my two bits about how the activity was super important for getting people to come. We had just done bowling for a ward activity and it was really successful. So i suggested doing it on a multi-stake level. Since it was October, i suggested it be costume bowling. Everyone loved it, so we started planning.

Can i just say, i love an excuse to get all sparkly? I love makeups!

It's hard to plan food when it's mutli-stake because you have NO idea how many people are going to come, and activities in the past haven't proven to bring a lot of people out... But while planning i told them this activity would get A LOT of people to come out. When i got there to help set up, they had planned snacks for maybe fifty people. As soon as i saw, i ran over to Maceys to grab more stuff.

Of course, i got A LOT of stares, being dressed up as a butterfly, a week before Halloween... but, whatever. I was on a MISSION! I grabbed TONS of candy and big bowls to put it all in (like trick-or-treating) then more soda and chips and salsa. (i spent about $150) It was a good thing i went. More and more people came. (over 150 total!) I guest-a-mated pretty well. I only threw away a little soda and we had about 3 1/2 bags of chips left over. Not bad!

Anyway, It was a really fun night!! Half way through the night, (we rented out the entire bowling alley from 7-9pm) they turned down the lights and did Cosmic bowling, with loud dance music. The people from our ward were pretty rambunctious. It made things really fun.